The Other Shoe on the Proverbial Islamic Foot

One of your favourite tactics against those who question
the core assumptions behind the #Myjihad campaign is to
make prodigious use of insults and ad hominem attacks.

One of the most
frequent insults employed by you is to accuse critics of being ‘haters’. Let us
examine this charge for a moment. I do agree that hate speech and incitement
can be a serious problem and that it should have no place in open and tolerant
societies.

This is why hate speech is actively discouraged in most
Western societies. Some Western countries have even criminalised hate speech
(e.g. Canada, the Netherlands etc.)

Would you agree that if I made the following statements
about Muslims I would be guilty of ‘hate speech’? (Let me just make it
abundantly clear that I am using these statements in an illustrative sense and
that they do not in any way reflect my personal views).

* Muslims are the worst kind of animals

* Be merciful to one another but be hard towards Muslims

* Muslims are perverse

* Strike terror into the hearts of Muslims and strike off
their heads and fingertips

* Fight the Muslims who are near to you

* When Muslims make mischief against you murder and crucify
them

You would have to agree that these statements fall well
within any definition of ‘hate speech’ and would land me in deep legal trouble
in many parts of the world.

Any prosecutor worth his salt, in a country where hate
speech laws are in place, would be able to secure a conviction against me on
the basis of these pronouncements. What about if these statements are used
against non-Muslims?

Would it still be ‘hate speech’? If not, why not? The fact
is that these exact statements can be found in the Qur’an directed against
those who reject Allah and his ‘prophet’. Here they are:

Quran (8:55) - Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's
sight are those who disbelieve

Quran (48:29) - Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And
those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among
themselves

Quran (9:30) - And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah,
and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah... Allah (Himself)
fights against them. (How perverse are they! )

Quran (8:12) - I will cast terror into the hearts of those
who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip
of them

Quran (9:123) - O you who believe! Fight those of the
unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness

Quran (5:33) - The punishment of those who wage war against
Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this,
that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should
be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a
disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous
chastisement

So Yasmina before you accuse anyone of being a ‘hater’
again I challenge you to explain to us why the imaginary 'hate' you accuse
others of (I again challenge you to bring me any expression of ‘hate’ towards
Muslims from my tweets) is worse than the very real expressions of hatred and
examples of incitement to hatred that can be found in your holy book. I look
forward to hearing from you!

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